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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Northumberland => Topic started by: belfordian on Thursday 29 February 24 12:04 GMT (UK)
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I have received a query from someone researching ancestors from North Northumberland who mentions that one of them may have lived at PROUDLAW. Probably near Bamburgh, Warenford or Newham. I live near the latter but have not heard of it and it does not appear on old maps.
Can anyone help suggest where this might be? I think it could be an mis- transcription but for what?
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Do you have any clues as to the source of the information?
I can’t see it on the Northumberland Farm Index or in the Name Books.
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The nearest I can find is Prudhoe, a township in the parish of Ovingham, Northumberland.
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My thought was Prudhoe too.
As Jen B says if you/they can tell tell us where they found this then we may have a better chance of helping.
Boo
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There is a proudlaw listed on Scotland's places berwickshire
Harrywrag
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Berwickshire
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There is a proudlaw listed on Scotland's places berwickshire
Harrywrag
So there is, but only in land tax rolls, not in the gazetteer
https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search/results?st=proudlaw
Boo
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Thank you everyone for your suggestions. I have verified that the placename of Proudlaw or Prodlaw is recorded as “in the parish of Bamburgh” in the original entry in 1770s Baptism register. Perhaps it is an old name for a tiny place/building which no longer exists.
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A couple of snippet images (courtesy of Find My Past) confirming Prodlaw Bamburgh
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Snippet image (courtesy of Find My Past) from the Newcastle Journal, 7 September 1850 -- 'and Prodlaw and Low Mill Estates in the Parish of Bamburgh'
I have looked at early maps of the area but I can't find where Prodlaw actually was. Low Mill could possibly be Adderston Lowmill.
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I've found Prodlaw on the 1842 tithe map, in the township of Adderstone (parish of Bamburgh).
On a modern map about 3 miles south of Belford the B6348 leads west to Bellshill Farm. On the other side of the A1 there are two farms marked as Adderstone Mains and Adderstone Low Mill. On the tithe map whilst the former is Adderstone Mains, the latter is Prodlaw, owner Thomas Henry Graham, occupier Henry Dinning.
The farm seems to be Adderstone Low Mill on early OS maps too.
Added: Newlands Estate, Warenton, to the west north of Bellshill has the same owner and occupier as Prodlaw and Henry Dinning can be found in the 1841 census in the township of Warenton as opposed to at Prodlaw in the township of Adderstone.
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A couple of snippet images (courtesy of Find My Past) confirming Prodlaw Bamburgh
That first snippet is very misleading as it infers that Prodlaw was a parish in its own right, which clearly is inaccurate, FindMyPast's 'transcripton' has translated an 'abode' with a 'parish'
Boo
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Thanks so much, Alan Boyd, for your skilful detective work in locating Prodlaw! I live a couple of miles away and had never heard of it. So many old names have completely disappeared and been replaced by new ones. What would we researchers do without Rootschat?